One intrepid curator by the name of Jeremiah Warren has been collecting noteworthy tweets throughout 2012 and created the video retrospective above.

From a stranded Italian cruise ship, to the acquisition of Instagram, to the Supereme Court health care ruling, to the heartbreaking mass shootings, to the riots in Libya, to a Disney-owned Lucasfilm, to the Mayan apocalypse, this is the news and commentary that streamed onto our desktops and smartphones, 140 characters at a time.

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